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Rat Traps—Asterisk

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Does the rationalist blogosphere need to update?

Rat Traps—Asterisk Does the rationalist blogosphere need to update? There’s a life cycle to a genre. A classic version follows a predictable path: invention by a few early practitioners, followed by maturity, death, and, if lucky, rebirth. If the literary scholar Franco Moretti is to be believed — and he had the pretty graphs to show it 1 — this happens every 25 to 30 years. Alternatively, French film theorist Christian Metz offered four stages: experimental, classic, parody, and deconstruction. (Consider what Pulp Fiction did to film noir.) I’d say there’s a more inglorious cycle: birth, prom

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